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Since everyone here seems to love cursed technology, I made a chart rating various interfaces by their perceived cursedness.
Some like 10G BASE-T have a reason for being cursed, whereas others like USB PD not so much.
Any additions?
![An X/Y chart with the X axis labeled 'fast [bit/s]' and the Y axis labeled 'cursed'. On the X, axis there are log-spaced ticks from 100k to 10G.
The chart area is filled with various interface names, listed in order of ascending cursedness:
100k Range:
UART, TI Calculator link cable, USB PD
1M/10M Range:
SPI, CAN, USB, FS
100M/1G Range:
USB 3.0, 100Base-T, D-PHY, 1000BASE-T, USB HS, HEC, MHL
10G Range:
PCIe, USB4 v2, 10G BASE-T](https://friends.grishka.me/i/-0KLYMSmIdJlM9AvageiWuYHUGiQXzfca4bRSmjEU-s/q:90/rs:fit:2560:2560/bG9jYWw6Ly8vcy9tZWRpYV9jYWNoZS9hMDVhZWVmZTdhMGM2ZTU5YjUyYmQ0N2I5Y2ZhZGI3Yi53ZWJw.jpg)
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Remember back when there was no Chrome, Internet Explorer was the enemy and Firefox the hot new thing? Believe it or not, this video got the second place in the 2006 Firefox ad contest: https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2006/04/firefox-flicks-video-contest-winners-announced/ @karotte I really like this. where did you get the video from? (http://www.firefoxflicks.com seems to be dysfunctional :()  @karotte@chaos.social this'll be interesting. especially since init often checks it's own PID. what exactly happens? It's project time again!!! For a future project, I need to conveniently probe an SFP transceiver while it's operating. Not having found an SFP extender that suited my needs, I made my own based on an HDMI cable. The SFP end on the top goes into a 3D-printed shell. The receptacle board fans out all low-speed signals to headers for convenient probing and interception. It can be cut at the white line to get access to the bottom side of the SFP. 1GE link works, 10GE is to be tested. |
@karotte irda. It's UART but optically cursed.
TOSLINK? Barely cursed at all, unless you try and make it cross the Atlantic.
@karotte might make sense to add SATA, Isa and pci (no e)
How do you determine the cursedness? Is it how hard the interface is to implement, or how the world will perceive you trying to bit-bang it, or some particular quirks that stand out but are needed for backwards compatibility or other reasons?